<p>Background: In Western countries, the relationship between smoking intentions and smoking behaviour is well established. However, youth smoking intentions and associated factors in developing countries are largely ...

<p>The main purpose of this thesis was to contribute to a better understanding of factors
that are important when general practitioners (GPs) make decisions for sick leave for
patients with severe subjective health ...

The literature contains many reports on cigarette smokers and smoking cessation, but there
are fewer qualitative studies on smokers’ and ex-smokers’ experiences with smoking cessation and
health care professionals. The ...

<p>Background: Fostering adolescents’ communication on sexuality issues with their parents and other significant
adults is often assumed to be an important component of intervention programmes aimed at promoting ...

Having a distant relationship with parents seems to increase the risk of developing a more negative global self-esteem. This article describes a longitudinal study of 1,090 Norwegian adolescents from the age of 13–23 (54 ...

<p>Background: Research on trends in child undernutrition in Kenya has been hindered by the challenges of changing
criteria for classifying undernutrition, and an emphasis in the literature on international comparisons ...

The recurrence of environmental calamities is causing the degradation of the Sundarbans' forest in Bangladesh. The thesis aims to discover the forest societies' perceptions and behaviors about the Sundarbans,' considering ...

<strong>Objectives:</strong>
The fetal origins of adult disease hypothesis
describes associations found for fetal or early-life expos-
ures with cardiovascular risk and disease in adulthood. The
extension or not of ...

Background: Osteoporosis and osteoporotic fractures represent a major problem for public health in Norway. The World Health Organisation has estimated that the problem will have multiplied by a factor of four on a global ...

Introduction. The international Union for Health Promotion and Education highlights that developing a competent Health Promotion workforce is a key component of capacity building for the future and is critical to delivering ...